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19-letter words containing a, s, t, i, n, g

  • time sharing option — (operating system)   (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
  • to ring the changes — If you say that someone rings the changes, you mean that they make changes or improvements to the way something is organized or done.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • training instructor — a person who teaches people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
  • travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
  • triangulum australe — a small bright triangular constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Ara and the Southern Cross, that contains an open star cluster
  • ultrasonic cleaning — the use of ultrasound to vibrate a piece to be cleaned while the piece is immersed in a cleaning fluid. The process produces a very high degree of cleanliness, and is used for jewellery and ornately shaped items
  • up against the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
  • waterglass painting — stereochromy.
  • yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
  • zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.
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